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Strange Facts that go against the grain completely

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    #302
    Marcusm
    Registered Users Posts: 10,217 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    Sindri wrote: »
    Abbey Road?

    Abbey Road is not in the City of London, some of it is in the City of Westminster, most is merely within the Borough of Camden.


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    #303
    deise go deo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭deise go deo


    9 out of 10 people actually enjoy gang rape.


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    #304
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,208 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Wossack wrote: »
    Its estimated that 90 percent of the cells in the human body, are from non-human organisms :eek:


    link
    Also, a decent proportion of our DNA is of viral origin.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



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    #305
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users Posts: 10,256 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    It's a little known fact that David Bowie invented Buckaroo.


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    #306
    Marcusm
    Registered Users Posts: 10,217 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    al28283 wrote: »
    No it's not. The tomato sauce on a pizza is counted as a portion of vegetable

    Which is even more screwed up as a tomato is a fruit not a vegetable!


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    #307
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    --Kaiser-- wrote: »
    I will take no acknowledgement of your post except to say you clearly lack understanding of basic English

    ;)

    This is getting extremely pedantic and boring. Really if you feel so aggrieved and resentful by my post then there is nothing I can do to help you. My apologies. But seriously take a chill pill, it's only the internet FFS. ;)


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    #308
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Sindri wrote: »
    ;)

    This is getting extremely pedantic and boring. Really if you feel so aggrieved and resentful by my post then there is nothing I can do to help you. My apologies. But seriously take a chill pill, it's only the internet FFS. ;)

    Sorry. I'm a professional pedant!


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    #309
    Cormic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Cormic


    One for the ladies...

    Close left thumb in left hand, make a fist like that. Squeeze tight. You will now have lost most of your gag reflex.


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    #310
    Irishchick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,151 ✭✭✭Irishchick


    Cormic wrote: »
    One for the ladies...

    Close left thumb in left hand, make a fist like that. Squeeze tight. You will now have lost most of your gag reflex.

    Im embarassed to say I just tried this. Not true....excuse me while I get the mop :D


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    #311
    Finneen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 121 ✭✭Finneen


    Most classic movies are remakes.


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    #312
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    No fish n'chips in Italy

    Yet many of the chippers around Ireland are owned by Italian families

    Tis a strange one


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    #313
    dvpower
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,183 ✭✭✭dvpower


    Temptamperu wrote: »
    The Yo-Yo was originally used as a weapon in the philippines.
    The Phillipines have never won a war.


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    #314
    skinny90
    Registered Users Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭skinny90


    Feet smell and noses run


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    #315
    chucktesta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭chucktesta


    44leto wrote: »
    North and south America are 2 different continents.

    Intresting video here on it, seems theres a bit of debate over continents


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uBcq1x7P34


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    #316
    Phill Ewinn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭Phill Ewinn


    If runners are for running waht are slippers for?


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    #317
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,929 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    dvpower wrote: »
    The Phillipines have never won a war.
    Well they wouldn't would they what with using Yo-yos as weapons?


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    #318
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    A man tried to live a year like Bear Grylls.. he died after a month.

    Googles hompage is so simple because, niether Larry Page nor Sergey Brin knew HTML.


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    #319
    bleg
    Registered Users Posts: 5,848 ✭✭✭bleg


    Temptamperu wrote: »
    A man tried to live a year like Bear Grylls.. he died after a month.



    You can't survive on drinking your own piss.


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    #320
    Cool Mo D
    Registered Users Posts: 1,419 ✭✭✭Cool Mo D


    Marcusm wrote: »
    Which is even more screwed up as a tomato is a fruit not a vegetable!

    All fruits are technically vegetables too! A vegetable is any edible part of a plant. Fruits are the ripened ovaries of seed-bearing plants.
    However this definition means that cucumbers, green beans and peppers are also fruit. So the most common culinary definition is that the sweet edible parts of a plant are fruits and the savoury edible parts of a plant are vegetables. So really it's all pretty arbitrary, and tomatoes can clearly be considered as a fruit or a vegetable.


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    #321
    treborflynn
    Registered Users Posts: 105 ✭✭treborflynn


    I've an awful dose of the squits. FACT


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    #322
    Cormic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Cormic


    Irishchick wrote: »
    Im embarassed to say I just tried this. Not true....excuse me while I get the mop :D

    I did say MOST.


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    #323
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    Scientifically speaking the colour pink dosent exist and should be called minus green.


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    #324
    ChippingSodbury
    Registered Users Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭ChippingSodbury


    skinny90 wrote: »
    Feet smell and noses run

    That just means you're upside down


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    #325
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,827 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Temptamperu wrote: »
    Scientifically speaking the colour pink dosent exist and should be called minus green.
    the Irish language doesn't have a separate word for pink.

    Men can only distinguish one shade within pink , it's "salmon"

    Women can distinguish about a dozen


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    #326
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,827 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    pacquiao wrote: »
    the north pole is actually magnetic south.

    The bit of the magnet that points towards the North Magnetic Pole is properly called the north seeking pole.


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    #327
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    The British civil service anglicized the placenames around Ireland

    Some are decent and some are just bastardized phonetic versions that mean nothing
    The original place-name has information that you could link to the area


    Common one for a pub quiz
    The longest place-name in Ireland is Muckanaghederdauhaulia
    It's actually easier to pronounce in Irish Muiceanach idir Dhá Sháile

    West Galway :)


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    #328
    yuppies
    Registered Users Posts: 136 ✭✭yuppies


    4,000 to 5,000 generations* of humans, descendant after descendant, would live and die on this planet in the time it takes for a beam of light to travel from one end of the Milky Way to the other.

    * generation being 25 years for convenience sake and Milky Way being 100-120 thousand light-years across.


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    #329
    [Deleted User]
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    yuppies wrote: »
    4,000 to 5,000 generations* of humans, descendant after descendant, would live and die on this planet in the time it takes for a beam of light to travel from one end of the Milky Way to the other.

    * generation being 25 years for convenience sake and Milky Way being 100-120 thousand light-years across.
    It got delayed at the contraflow near the crab nebula!*



    *yes I know.....


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    #330
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It got delayed at the contraflow near the crab nebula!*



    *yes I know.....

    it also got delayed at the the pot hole in the middle of the galaxy that dan morrisey's crew forgot to tarmac over :D


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    #331
    skylight1987
    Registered Users Posts: 350 ✭✭skylight1987


    There is no sound between the galaxies. If you screamed nothing would come out .


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